On Feb 6, 2006, at 6:49 AM, sparaig wrote:But if Ethos naturally follows, then that's just what MMY claims inthe first place. Whether or not MMY himself is ethical or enlightened or whatever, is a different question. If you have a lecture or transcript of M. talking on ethics, I'd like to hear
On Feb 6, 2006, at 7:36 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:If only 50% of them turn out to be correct, then you could achieve the same result by flipping a coin. And if very, very, very *few* of one's intuitive announcements, plans, and pronouncements ever turn out to be correct (as almost anyone sane has to
On Feb 5, 2006, at 10:43 AM, authfriend wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 5, 2006, at 10:11 AM, authfriend wrote: The "grain of the evolution of the Kosmos" sounds an awful lot like a "standard," then. It also sounds a lot like action in accord
On Feb 5, 2006, at 10:11 AM, authfriend wrote:The "grain of the evolution of the Kosmos" sounds an awful lot like a "standard," then. It also sounds a lot like action in accord with the laws of nature. Well not really because people at different stages of development will experience and act tha
On Feb 5, 2006, at 2:54 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:As the term is generally used in Buddhism, ethics comes from within and never changes; it implies a sensitivity to one's own internal "meter" of right and wrong.Yep, the whole theme of "relative bodhichitta" vs. "absolute bodhichitta".As Ken Wilber put
--- jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Where my mind stops is when I hear about people
> making 'mistakes'.
> What IS a mistake, anyway? I personally couldn't
> tell ya...
Exactly. What is a mistake? It's simply a term used to
indicate something we don't like.
On Feb 4, 2006, at 8:08 PM, authfriend wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That lecture you downloaded yesterday, the section on enlightenment and assholes, touches nicely on this topic and how people (e.g. Adi Da, Chogyam Trungpa) use it to commit the mos
on 2/4/06 6:05 PM, bbrigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Premanand Paul Mason"
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>> 'Vedic literature' is full of ghastly wars, vile punishments for
>> minor crimes, talking animals and wizardry too.
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> on 2/4/06 1:27 PM, wayback71 at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ingegerd"
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> >> I agree with you. To raise critical questions is
> a good thing - even
> >> when it com
on 2/4/06 1:27 PM, wayback71 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ingegerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> I agree with you. To raise critical questions is a good thing - even
>> when it comes to Guru Dev - who is my absolute favorite. I love his
>> quotatio
on 2/4/06 10:32 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> The latter sounds like Megalonmania 101. If you're
> a megalomaniac, you find a way to make *everything*
> about you. That's what he was doing; he wasn't really
> owning up to making any mistakes.
Like the ice stalagmite that formed
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